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embrasure [ɪmˈbreɪʒə] n
1. (Military / Fortifications) Fortifications an opening or indentation, as in a battlement, for shooting through 2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) an opening forming a door or window, having splayed sides that increase the width of the opening in the interior [from French, from obsolete embraser to widen, of uncertain origin] embrasured adj ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Translations embrasure n (in parapet) → Schießscharte f; (of door, window) → Laibung f Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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architecture battlement Battlemented bay bunker crenelle door doorway En barbette Genouillere In battery opening port porthole round ship Tuyere | The other bank of the stream was open ground -- a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge. There was a rustling in the shadows of a near-by corridor, and he could have sworn that he saw a human hand withdrawn from an embrasure that opened above him into the domelike rotunda in which he found himself. His stay at the castle of Stutevill was drawn out to three days, and then, on the third day, as he sat with Bertrade de Montfort in an embrasure of the south tower of the old castle, he spoke once more of the necessity for leaving and once more she urged him to remain. |
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